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January 21, 2021
The Saddest Words
William Faulkner's Civil War
Michael Gorra
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Michael Gorra about his new book The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War (Liveright, 2020). This episode touches on two of William Faulkner’s novels in particular: The Sound and …
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Military History
January 18, 2021
Britain's War
A New World, 1942-1947
Daniel Todman
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Oxford UP, 2020), begins with the event Winston Churchill called …
Military History
January 8, 2021
Adaptation Under Fire
How Militaries Change in Wartime
David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
Few human enterprises are as complex, dynamic, and unpredictable as war. Armed conflict substitutes the relatively ordered reality of peace with the undeniably chaotic reality of combat. Militaries, by design …
History
January 6, 2021
A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The First World War was marked by an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things even further, employing maps, charts, reconnaissance …
East Asian Studies
December 30, 2020
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
Centering Islam in World War II
Kelly A. Hammond
Hosted by Ed Pulford
The 1930s-40s expansion of the Japanese empire was marked by significant interest among Japan-based scholars and policy-makers in China’s Muslim population and how best to write them into a new …
British Studies
December 28, 2020
Occupied America
British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Donald F. Johnson
Hosted by Charles Prior
When we read the Declaration of Independence, what tends to jump off the page are the lofty propositions concerning natural rights. Yet over a third of the brief document is …
Military History
December 22, 2020
The Gallipoli Evacuation
Peter Hart
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the story of how the Allied force …
History
December 17, 2020
Sarajevo 1914
Sparking the First World War
Mark Cornwall
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have …
History
December 16, 2020
Tank Warfare
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. In Tank Warfare (Indiana UP …
Eastern European Studies
December 9, 2020
Men Under Fire
Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918
Jiří Hutečka
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the …
East Asian Studies
December 8, 2020
China's Good War
How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
Rana Mitter
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
Although World War II had been largely remembered in the People’s Republic of China as an experience of victimization since its founding in 1949, that view has been changing since …
History
December 3, 2020
For Might and Right
Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy
Michael Brenes
Hosted by Zeb Larson
Donald Trump campaigned on a great many things in 2016, but one of the issues he used to criticize Democrats was their role in supporting sequestration and cuts to …
Chinese Studies
December 1, 2020
Mao's Third Front
The Militarization of Cold War China
Covell F. Meyskens
Hosted by Suvi Rautio
In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex …
History
November 30, 2020
All Against All
The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Paul Jankowski
Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
In his latest monograph, All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and The Origins of the Second World War (Harper, 2020), Professor Paul Jankowski (Brandeis University) provides a wide-angled …
History
November 30, 2020
Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance
Jeremy M. Black
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy from the …
Eastern European Studies
November 27, 2020
The Women of the Arrow Cross Party
Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War
Andrea Pető
Hosted by Steven Seegel
Andrea Pető's book The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of …
Military History
November 18, 2020
Small Boats and Daring Men
Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy
Benjamin F. Armstrong
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding …
History
November 13, 2020
The United States of War
A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
David Vine
Hosted by Dexter Fergie
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years. Across nearly two-and-a-half centuries, that’s a lot of war. In his new book, The United States …
British Studies
November 9, 2020
The Bloody Flag
Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
Niklas Frykman
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights. In …
American Studies
November 4, 2020
The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898 to 1945
David S. Nasca
Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
Amphibious warfare, as outlined by American Rear Admiral James E. Jouett in 1885, was a relatively straightforward affair: to project power from the sea, all one had to do was …
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